Frozen confection and method of making the same



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ATTORNEYS 2,570,031 ERozEN coNEEcTIoN AND METHOD 0E MAKING THE sAME Filed Aug. 29, 1949 H. C. GIBSON Oct. 2, 1951 2 SheetsSheet 2 34 36 JSINVENTOR Harz/ery' C 26am? www ATTORNEYS Patented ct. 2, 195i OFFICE 2,570,031- FRozEN coNFEoTIoN AND METHOD voF MAKING THE Harvey C. Gibson, Lancaster, Pat: Application August 29, 1949, serial No. 112,96i

This invention relates to confections.

The invention is more particularly directed to frozen composite confections. I have termed my invention a Sundae-on-a-Stick.

So-called sundaes are usually made up of one or more scoops of bulk ice cream and a. dressing or syrup of most any flavor is poured over the ice cream which is in a suitable dish, and, of course, nuts, marshmallow and fruits may be added to the sundae. Such sundaes are dispensed in drug stores, soda bars, etc. i

In my invention, I embody the so-called Sundae-on-a-Stick in a frozen condition on a stick and thus may sundaes on sticks may be purchased at soda bars, drug stores, etc. and from attendants of refrigerated mobile vehicles. My Sundae-on-a-Stick is equally as palatable as the sundae prepared and dispensed at the soda 4bar or drug store and yet may be handled and eaten without any undue stickiness or melting or dripping of the same, notwithstanding the fact that the sundae may contain two or more different flavors of ice cream, combinations of ice cream or frozen custards and fruit, fruit-ices, sherbet or fudge, etc., all of which have embodied therewith the dressing and, in some instances, nuts and fruit and the like are also embodied in the article.

In making a Sundae-on-a-Stick in accordance with my invention, the completed article is necessarily a composite one. This composite sundae, if consisting of a layer of fruit and a layer of ice cream with a layer of the dressing encased between the two first said layers, with the stick extending into the article between the said layers, must necessarily be so prepared, including proper stabilization of the fruit product, so that numerous of said articles can be readily frozen and the frozen state maintained, and the stick rmly axed to the article.

I have found that a composite confection, in accordance with my invention, consisting of a layer of frozen friut, fruit-ice, sherbet or fudge, and a layer of ice cream or frozen custard with the dressing disposed in the article between the two layers is adaptable for ready freezing and Athat the nal frozen article will maintain a substantial frozen state during the complete course of the eating process.

In order to further improve the texture and provide greater palatability of the ice cream and fruit composite confection, I have also found that, in order that the fruit is `essentially of the same texture andi-melt down as that of the ice cream, it is necessary to stabilize the same with "a colloidal or a composite of colloidals such as gelatin, pectin,locust bean gum (gum arabic).

7 Claims. (Cl. 99-137) etc., which usually requires twice the amount required for stabilizing ice cream. For anantioxidant and retaining freshness in the product, gum oat is used. After incorporation of the stabilizer with the fruit, it is then semi-frozen in the same manner as the ice cream prior to disposal through the nozzles into the molds. In semi-freezing the stabilized fruit, an over-run is developed therein which further improves texture and palatability; this, of course, includes the incorporation of air in the mix, and this over-run is generally from to 100%. Thus, with a over-run, a. gallon of fruit (or ice cream) weighs only about four and one-half pounds. However, -the over-run is often varied and the weight is accordingly varied in like proportion. Such fruits as will noti comminute under the action of the mechanical freezer, must be comminuted prior to semi-freezing. i

The dressing, which is in the center of-` my composite frozen article, is of flexuous or wavylike formation. I have discovered that in dispensing the three component ingredients constitutng mycomposite confection through nozzles that, due to the viscosity, state and/or degree of semi-freeze, and over-run, all varying from time to time, this is what causes the phenomena of the varying flexuous or wavy-like disposition of the center of the composite confection, which is the dressing or the like. I have found that, in dispensing the several component ingredients from a single nozzle to a mold, the composite discharged from the nozzle or nozzles to the mold pockets flows from the nozzles in an undulating or undulated stream or body to the mold or molds and thus the flexuous or wavy-like or marbleized disposition of the dressing within the composite article is obtained.

With the above in mind, it is an object of my invention to provide a relatively inexpensive and practicably dispensable frozen lconfection simulating a so-called sundae.

A further object of my invention is to provide a relatively inexpensive and practicably dispensable frozen confection simulating a sof-called sundae, and wherein the confection is mounted on a stick. i

Another object of my invention is to provide a novel composite confection wherein two or more avors of ice cream, sherbet, frozen custard, etc. with an inner layer or core of exuous formation and constituting a dressing lor syrup, is substantially enclosed within` the confection. Another object of my invention is to provide a novel composite confection wherein two `or more flavors of ice cream, sherbet, frozen cus- A further object of my inventionis' to `provide i a frozen confection wherein several composite layers of different flavored ice cream or .the like.

are superposed and Venclosed between .the same a frozen dressing.

Another object of my invention is to provide a frozen confection wherein the dressing is contained within the same in a frozen condition and one, gi more einem t flavored iaylis of iicje cream be"fro`zen fruit or"the"lile,'or'frozen fruit, nuts or the like may be* distributedthroughoutv the bodyof 'the frozen confection.

With the abfov'e' andotler'objects in view, .the inventiorfconsists in the construction and novel Combination and arrangement of parts Ahereinafterfully "de,scribed, illustr'atecl in the accompanying drawings andpointed out in thecla'ims hereto appended, `it being understood'tnat various @baril-tos. ip the'ioiit. proportions., onol'mipor Cietailsfof construction," within the scope of the oloiipa may bo resorted t0 Withoiltdoportips from the Spirit oroarifioips of. tho advantages oi the invention.

In. tllo` orowipgor Fis- 1 is o. poropootiro view. oi tho frozen oopiootiop; Fig.-

o transverse. Sectional. View taten. sob.- Stoptiallr alors tho. .1i-.no 2r... oi Fist l.;

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Eis. e.. is a lopeitiioipel. .seotioial View taken alors. the lino @f4 otitis'- 3;

Figs. 5, 6; 'li 8 and?.` are longitudinal. Sectional views .Showing rarious. modioations, of the volition.;

Eis. l0 is. a perspective riew. partly in. section, showing, the. llling. of the. confection. into. the moldsfrom nozzles.;

. vFig. .1.1.- is .a vertical Sectional viewoi one of. the nozzlessliowninllig. .1.0;

Fig. l2 is a. vertical sectional View ofv the nozzle shown inFig, l1, butin a different positionfrom that in Fig. 1.1; and.

Fig. 13 is a transverse sectional. view. substantially on the line 1.3?1-3 of. Fig. 1.1, looking inthe Vdirectionrof the arrow.

The invention will, be more readily understood by referring to the drawings in detail, wherein like numerals in the severalfigures of the drawings all denote the same parts.

I-t is believedl that the invention will be more clearly understood by rst, referring briefly to the manner in which the frozenconfection is3made. In Fig, 10 of 'the drawings there is disclosed a plurality ofspacedrdispensin'g" nozzles I4',V l5, I6 andI I 1; each of which nozzles, at its upper end- I8, isbutt welded as, at I9 to' the under side, of the distributor or header` plate,` 2l)- `adj acentj and Ysurrounding an opening 2l Etherein. All of the nozzles are similarly` formedso adescription of one will stuflice. The nozzles areelongated 4and have a ythe flattened end 24 of the nozzle.

substantially cylindrical upper portion 22 which merges into a slightly tapered portion 23 and this tapered portion merges into a flattened end discharge portion 24. Each nozzle includes three separate and distinct passageways or vents 25, 26, 2l. The inner vent or passageway 26 is formed by a tubular one-piece member which is flattened and tapers and flares as at 28 and this tapered portion-merges into a flattened discharge end 29 which issubstantially of the same shape but of less cross sectional dimension and length than The inner passageway or vent 26 is reduced at its upper end 30 and this upper end is positioned and maintainedinv the opening 2l of the header or distribu- -tor plate 20. Openings 3l and 32 connect, re-

spectively, with passageways 25 and 2l'. The header or distributor plate 2 is operably'associated with a suitable hopper or container, not shown, which container1 is partitioned so as to allow three. .oliiforopt ingredients.. that constitute the frozen confection to, flow .int .the separato passageways 2.5; ..26 and-.211.. The inner ver-it. or passageway 26 is. .provided at. its. opposite. dos with preferably integral webs t3. contact and may beseoured .to portions of theinner walls of the. outer nozzle member and. thus .provide for the. three separate and distinct `passageways 2-5. 2S andZT.. seeFg. 13-

It will be noted that the. extremeiend 3.4 ot the inner vent or nozzle member ispositionedsl-ghtly inwardly of the. extreme end .3.5. .of .the outer nozzle member. However, the.A length -ofV this member may bechanged, .at will. The semi-solid and flowing body. of the composite. confection in: dicated at .3S in Fig. 10 ows .downwardly from the open ends of the. aforesaidnozzles directly. above suitablefreezing molds. 3.1 and` which molds depend from a pan-'like upper inortion;v which includes enclosing side, front and aback walls, two of which walls 39. and 4 6 .only vbeing-shownfint the diagrammatic. illustration inA Eig.. 10. .AS-.seen` in Fig. 10, the semi-solid 4compositeconfection flow-s from the nozzles to the. moldsin an. .undulated form, this. being` caused; by .the viscosity, semifreeze and over-run in varying degree in the material and which. results. i-n the hereinafter described exuous or.wavy.likedisposi-tion of the dressing which iseenclosed within the composite confection asfrozen. Y

My compositeA confection. is shown inl Figs. 1 through 9. In. the modification of the-intiem tion as disclosed. inV Figs. 1 through 4, the-cone fection consists of:Y a. frozen baror body` indicated generally -at 4|, the stick being denoted Vat 42; The barl orbody. of.- the` confection isof. less-width and thickness than thelength thereof, the-usual length of thevarticle being about four or five inches and about an inch thick and about two inches wideV and taper-ing* from one Vend7 to the other.k The size andvcongurationoftheffrozen confection, however, is optional and-depends, of course, upon the amount ofl material used and the size and-shape of; the mold' as to itsV nal configuration andi s izei 4 l The bar or body of the confection 4l may conf sist of ice creamdenoted' at 4,3andj in l'iigs,` 1 through 4 the ice cream may all bejof one flavor, say vanilla, and withinthis bar or body ofice cream there is disposedpin a sinuous or wayyg-lilge formation the dressingsuch as` chocolatesyrup, fruit or the like 4 4. This dressing orcpre in its wavy-like formationor disposition in. the frozen artitle. isdioposod ip irregular condition 'and ,oftoiifis iiiwordly.. as.. at. 45:. from the.. outer. side edges 46 of the confection, see Fig.` 2. The undulations of the dressing vary in thickness, as will be seen in Fig. 3, wherein one undulation 41 is rather thick whereas the next undulation 48 is rather thin and this phenomena I have l found is effected in the confections that I have manufactured, but nonetheless, it will be seen that the dressing is so positioned within the confection that no matter where the bite is taken, and this is true with regard to the hereinafter mentioned modifications `of my invention, the individual eating the confection will in each bite ,have ice cream and some ofthe dressing so that the individual will have the effectl of actually eating a sundae such as dispensed in soda bars and the like. The ends 49 and 50 of the dressing withinthe frozen confection extend to the respective ends of the frozen confection and may or may not have fruits or nuts, indicated at therein. It will also be apparent, in the drawing, that a composite of ice cream and fruit provides alternating bites of the ice cream and fruit, and in so eating the flavor of each material is intensified. Thus, further improving palatability. Furthermore, one or more flavors of fruit may be provided with an ice-cream centenas a center dressing.

The center dressing may, in order that all materials utilized be of the same weight and texture, be semi-frozen with an over-run developed therein of approximately the same degree as the ice cream and other materials.

To prevent or retard possible bleeding out of the center dressing into the superposed materials, said dressing may be stabilized with colloidals or composites thereof, such as: gum arabic, pectin, gelatin, etc.`

For faster whipping, glyceryl monostearate is utilized at approximately 0.1%.

Fruit acids work Well with some fruits for blending and emphasizing fiavor, 0.1% to 0.15% usually being sufficient. i

In Fig. 5 the frozen confection consists of superposed layers of ice cream, frozen custard or the like denoted at 52, and a suitable comminuted fruit or the like 53, with the dressing or core 44 enclosed within the frozen confection and of such formation that this dressing has portions thereof that project into each of the bodies of ice cream or the like 52 and fruit 53 y and form a sort of interlocking relationship therewith. I have found that, in molding and freezing some of the confections, the dressing assumes the outline as disclosed in Fig. 5, it being understood that this dressing extends substantially to the sides of the frozen confection, the same as in the modification of the invention shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. 5, the dressing consists of rectangularly shaped hollow pockets 54, which pockets are disposed in the two different layers of the confection 52 and 53 and thus serve to hold the two superposed layers more firmly together in their frozen state.

In the modification of the confection shown in Fig. 6, which is similar to the invention as disclosed in Figs. 1 through 4, the sinuous or wavy-like formation of the dressing 44 is closer together, as regards the ridges and valleys than in Figs. 1 through 4. In molding some of the frozen confections, I have found that the wavylike or fiexuous disposition of the dressing 44 in the ice cream body assumes the form as shown in Fig. 7, wherein the undulations or ridges and valleys 54 are farther apart than in the aforementioned modifications of the invention, and

adjacent the end 55 the dressing is substantially straight, as it were.

I have still further found that in molding and freezing the confections, the dressing 44, as shown in Fig. 8, is disposed within the frozen confection in substantially V-shaped formation, indicated at 56, and thus providing between these V-shaped formations pockets or spaces 5'!` into which the ice cream and/or frozen fruit or the like in two different layers 58 and 59 is disposed and frozen and thus firmly held together in their composite relationship. In Fig. 8 it will be noted that some of the V-shaped `dressing formations are actually connected and contact at the point of the V, as indicated at 60, whereasother of these V-shaped formations, as indicated ,at 6| are unconnected and out of contact but allof the said formations may be unconnected.

Further, in Fig. 9, the dressing 44 disposed within the frozen article, as in the aforementioned figures of the drawings, assumes a marbleized effect in that there are several distinct and unconnected dressing ingredients disposed in the frozen body of the confection to produce the marbleized effect. l

In all of the modifications of my invention, and as is clearly seen in the figures of the drawings 1 through 9, the stick 42 projects a considerable distance into the body or bar of the frozen confection and in all instances that portion of the stick 62 which is embedded in the body ofthe confection passes through several of the wavylike or fiexuous formations of the dressing `44. Thus, the embedded portion of the stick is firmly held by the frozen confection.

From the foregoing it is clear that I have provided' a novel frozen confection which lends itself to many combinations of different flavored ice creams, sherbets, frozen custards etc., along with the dressing which is embedded in the frozen confection, and thus I provide in fact a frozen sundae on a stick so that the individual eating the same will have all the benefits of a sundae as ordinarily and usually prepared and yet there will be no inconvenience such as stickiness or running of any portion of the frozen confection, and in every bite rby the individual the ice cream or ice cream and fruit or whatever the combination may be, will be accompanied by a portion of the dressing.

The sundae dressing which is disposed between two bodies of ice cream or a body of ice cream and fruit, as the case may be, is provided with more sugar or other sweetening and thus has a much lower freezing point. It is, therefore, necessary that a proper stabilizer be utilized.

This confection may be provided with a coating or covering to prevent stickiness in handling and eating. Due to the abundance of flavors provided by the composite members, a costly coating such as chocolate and the like containing cocoa butter or vegetable oils used in some frozen stick confections is not necessary. A sugar-water coating is recommended instead. Two pounds sugar to ten gallons water provides a transparent film which is highly desirable. Furthermore, cups or other suitable containers mayl be used, having provided in their bottoms, tops or lids, apertures providing passageways for the sticks to be inserted therethrough and by which the contents are pushed or pulled from the 4receptacle. The right is reserved to fill family size desert packages for home use. These packs are filled by using one or more larger or wider three-vent nortlsiiristeed ef-reerasshewnxin the drawings'. w The stabilizers used wouldprefe'r'ably be locust beanfgumigi'irn arabic) pe'c'tin and gelatin, and,

used singlyfpreferredin the 'orderlisted How- ?efr, locust bean gum 'and 'pectin together are desir-able. It requires approximately twice as uchrto stabilize fruit aS ice Cream. TherefOre,V

` l`what sweeter than the outside composite Vmate- :rial and; inagbbdimanyflinstances, lit is consider- `dressing might cause some ftr'ouble. Therefore, de'to the undulations, fthe top dressings orcent'e sare held between 'the composit'eoute'r matefral 'such' as lice cream andfruit orlice cream and dg'e, etc. If the'center'dressing were disposed iin a straight line within the outer VVnaterifalsdifnculty might `be experienced v:inn'rrrxly 'homing or embedding `the portion of Vthe 'stick Hintheconiection 'as the stick would then be disposed propfe'rly solely in the centerdressingwithn the 'conection. Due to the undulati'ons o'r wavy-like fo'rrnatiomfit will, "therefore, be Vseen that Ia port-n 'ofi the -s`tickpasses through the 'outer mate- -i'i'al's Vwhich are freien and sealed thereto and "which, of course, holds the `stick i substantially in the bar or body. I desire itunderstood 'that'a tart product maylbelus'ed l`for dressings,-i'fdes'ired.

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1-.` `A fro'z'en composite -Confeotionfcompris'ing'f a body consisting of at least twosubstantially similarly'formed -layers `of frozen matrialimer'ging intof'each'fotheigan intermediate core of congealed *materaL 'Which material 'is d'erent'tliafn the Inatrial of b'thoi Said layers Vand is wCif lessvvidth `than the -boy and. extends longitudinally inere- 'i'n land is enclosed vbetween'the layrsjand a stick extending into saidbody through one end thereof fand passing Athrough and grippedY by the said core. -2. nfroze-n`composite confection comprising -a body formed of frozen Imaterial and in'chi'di"rig side and end faces, a `core of congeailedinaterial of less width lthan said body extending longitudifria-ily therein land having portions ext'e'nding transversely fof Athe body infopposite 4"directions land idefini-'ng spaces 'open-at ftheir'fenls and "eac-h *openalngone side, alternatelspaoes having-their open sides presented tc'aviard` opposite des :ofthe body, sal-id body enclosing the coreY poiitions extending ii'nt'o'fsaid spaces-and al 1" *extending longitudinally 'in fsa-id body 'through l'one end vtn'ereofa'nc'i passing through thepock'ets Avandthe `portions VYof the core 'defining Vthe*pockets "and'grlipped by 'the -"portions ff Vthe core through '"VV'hC'hQ"itpasses.` Y

VA frozen composite 'confection comprising-:a body consisting of layersof frozen material merig- -ing Withfeach other, 'and a core'of congealedfmaterial'of 'less' width than the'fbody extending-longitudinally therein 'between the' 'said `'layers'iarid having portions extending 'transversely fofthe vbody in opposite-directions and defini-ng spaces open 4atftneir ends and each open :along 'one'sida the open sides of alternate spaces being presented inoppositedirtions, the'layers' forming thefbo'fciy Vibia ng "portions enter-ing and vfilling the said "'s'p'ac'es,and a 'sticfkembed'ded for a portionof Tits length 4inthe fbody "with portions -passing through the space-'forming 'portions of the' said strip.

'4. A frozen composite 'confection 'ecomprisingf'a fbodyilconsisting oflay'ers of Vice cream'merging 'intofeacnbthen and a vcontinuous strip of 'cong'ealed dressing of "less width than the body ex- 'tendingrlongitdinally therein between the 'layers of icecream in'spaiced relation t0 opposite side 'extendinginto said body throughone end thereof and passing through and gripped by 'the undulations of the strip.

v5. The process of forming a composite confection comprising separately simultaneously 'feeding at least two similarly formed semi-solid layers 'of material and a semi-solid intermediate core'o'f less width than said layers into a mold, merging lthe layers vin the mold with the core Yextendi'hg longitudinally of the layers and Ienclosed therebetween, 'placing ia, stick in the mold with aportion thereof yextending into the core of thecorrfection, freezing theconfeotion in the "mold,"and removing 4the frozen vconfection on the stick from the mold. f

6. The `process `of'forming a .composite confection comprising simultaneously feeding Vmasses'of icecream and `an intermediate strip of semi-Huid dressinginto a mold with thesaid strip of dress'- ing located Vbetween the masses ofice cream, the `dressing having a sinuous form and defining pockets filled with portions of the layers of ice cream, a stick being disposed "longitudinally in the confection andpassing through and gripped by undulations of the strip, and all of the ingredients being united -byfreezing 7. The process'of yforming a compositeconfeotion lcomprising feeding Vsemi-fundV i'ce cream forming material into Aa mold together withfa semi-fluid Adressing spaced from margins of the ice cream materiaLithe said dressing being in the form ofafstripand `having undulations imparted `to it to form transversepockets open along'oilte'r 4sides/and lled with the'ice cream material, disposing'a stick' longitudinally in'the mold with portions passing through the undulations of-the dressing, and rfreezing the assembled ice cream material and-dressing and thereby forming a solid block in Which thestick is anchored by gripping Vaction-of the`v frozen dressing.

vHARVE'SZ' C. GIBSON.

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1. A FROZEN COMPOSITE CONFECTION COMPRISING A BODY CONSISTING OF AT LEAST TWO SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILARLY FORMED LAYERS OF FROZEN MATERIAL MERGING INTO EACH OTHER, AN INTERMEDIATE CORE OF CONGEALED MATERIAL, WHICH MATERIAL IS DIFFERENT THAN THE MATERIAL OF BOTH OF SAID LAYERS AND IS OF LESS WIDTH THAN THE BODY AND EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY THEREIN AND IS ENCLOSED BETWEEN THE LAYERS, AND A STICK EXTENDING INTO SAID BODY THROUGH ONE END THEREOF AND PASSING THROUGH AND GRIPPED BY THE SAID CORE. 